Teyvat's Craftsman & The Secret Of Its Duality | Genshin Impact Theory

[@DragonMJE]

At 14:48 the source is "Gloomy Statuette" At 23:22 the source is "Records of Hanan Pacha" Really minor mistakes because I was speedrunning the production of this video, but they will annoy me every time I look at them from now on.

[@ArchibaldVonSkip]

You forgot 14:25. 'Ever-Quiet Bark Sky'. Woof. 🐶

[@DragonMJE]

@@ArchibaldVonSkip Pain

[@reignbird]

also 22:00 should be Helios, not Hyperion

[@DragonMJE]

@@reignbird For future readers, this person's statement is misleading. The Hyperion (白夜の光) was the original official name of the Sun Chariot during the Byakuyakoku era. Later when they became Enkanomiya, the Hyperion became known as the Dainichi Mikoshi. The Sun Chariot was only referred to as the "Helios" by Abrax and his fellow Engineers who constructed it. For more context, check the World Quest "Hyperion's Dirge."

[@reignbird]

@@DragonMJE I wanted to help, misleading is a bit harsh of a callout but it's ok. Checked the things you referenced, emerged out of the rabbit hole, gonna use many words. "Aberaku: Helios is the Dainichi Mikoshi, the solar chariot that drives the Hyperion" The word "drives" is 运载 in CN which narrows the meaning down to the less ambiguous "carries". Therefore: - Helios = DM (Dainichi Mikoshi) - Helios =/= Hyperion, it's the chariot that carries it - consequently DM =/= Hyperion Sure, Enjou seemingly contradicts it by saying that DM's name was Hyperion. Actually, Enjou specifies that the name Hyperion "refers to the main body of the sun", a very important point. In the Aberaku's quote Hyperion is dubbed as 白夜之光 meaning Light of White Night. Since Helios is the chariot that carries Hyperion, Hyperion is the light-emitting mechanism on top of it. Helios = Chariot, DM itself, holds Hyperion high, connects it to the day/night switches etc. Hyperion = Sun, the light-emitting component of the DM, the very "main body of the sun" mentioned by Enjou, dubbed 白夜之光. Sure, Abrax also says Helios was merely his personal name for DM during construction. The quote does sound strange but ultimately it reinforces his further statement that Helios = DM while not explicitly contradicting anything above. In conclusion, it looks like DM was called Hyperion by extension, not directly. It's like calling a car "wheels", or income "bread", or a king "the crown". Helios was indirectly called Hyperion after it's most prominent component. Furthermore: - Enjou isn't credible or reliable enough to infer "the original official name" from his statements - maybe "a name" at best. - Hyperion is stated to be the sun, not the chariot, which is stated to be Helios. - There's no mentions of neither "engineers" nor "only" them and Abrax using the name Helios. - 白夜の光 is the JP translation of 白夜之光 from CN, in EN it's Byakuya no Hikari. If you use it then why don't you use the JP transliteration ハイペリオン for Hyperion? In any case the JP localization is irrelevant. And finally, the word Hyperion is used like twice in-game, one of those times was in a time-limited event too. Note that quest names are not truly in-game, they're only visible to the players in the UI and don't exist in Teyvat. On the other hand the word Helios is used dozens of times in-game to refer to DM and is immediately familiar to all players. But technically you're correct in the video since you're talking about the sun anyway.

[@sohammondal5579]

"Wayob are seeilies or related to seelies" Bro predicted 5.1 lore drop

[@ShirouE]

Imagine going back ~2400 years in the past and showing this to Plato and telling him: "Yeah, this Billion-Dollar Waifu Gambling Game largely exists because of you."

[@bluecat3338]

This feels like one of those domino memes where you start with 9/11 and end with the Twilight movies

[@oldstories54]

In fairness, you could show Plato a ton of wacky shit that exists largely because of him

[@bigchubb5268]

The tree of life and gnostic ideas have influenced most of the best media, throughout history

[@hayakawaken9493]

I mean, there's the Catholic Church, but OK.

[@bluecat3338]

@@hayakawaken9493 loving the implication here that the Catholic Church is also a billion dollar waifu gambling game that largely exists because of Plato

[@Blade393]

Watching this after 5.1 archon quest.... this guy predicted everything ✋😐✋

[@Alex04blue868]

Ye

[@GitGud-y9b]

This theory is really good because it actually explains why the Abyss is constantly going after the Ley Lines. If it can corrupt or destroy the perfect “Forms” then there will be nothing left for the Material World to repair itself with, since the concept it is based upon is eradicated.

[@MissusFail]

"What i am, however, is a professional video-game yapper" made me chuckle xD great video as always. Lets go dig up secrets in 5.1!

[@naranikarsa1608]

They already kind of told us in the summer event that the three drafts of the toytown story got jumbled up together by the witch's cat. So the three realms of genshin got similarly partly merged together by a cosmic accident that we know nothing about yet.

[@randomcitizen1669]

I absolutely love how the Genshin devs are sneakily foreshadowing concepts through most of summer events! Most people think they're just fillers, but the thematic writing is genuinely brilliant.

[@starlight14673]

They also told us abt durin waking tf up and sky is fake the latter is confirmed in the new oatch and i am waiting for our drago to get revived now

[@starlight14673]

​@@randomcitizen1669i thibk this was he best one far since before ones were more focused on the reguon stories this was fully focused on the major plot i.e tevyat structures and functions

[@Frou-hsr]

Or they got merged by the primordial one

[@captaindanger13]

30:58 speaking of the gnostic chorus, has anyone else noticed this cutscene didn't play when first opening the battle pass menu after updating the game?

[@superherofan9425]

I thought it was just me! I know I tend to skip, so like I opened it, went 'wait something is missing' and then at the end figured I had automatically skipped without thinking about it.

[@prophetPYSCHO]

Yes

[@hanchengjun275]

Time to watch my fav theorist while waiting for xilonen

[@beannnn1048]

you're genuinely becoming a theorist i actively seek out videos of, your theories and tin foil hat claims really hit the mark and make so much sense, they sound very well researched too. keep up the good work man!

[@CrystalRubyMoon]

Coming back to watch this after the 5.1 AQ is insane! The amount of things you hit right on the head

[@RukkhaRukkha]

Tbh there being two continents explains much of the timeline bs we've got going on in Teyvat's history. Thanks for the great video.

[@GhostEmblem]

Which timeline inconsistencies does it explain?

[@motemo8413]

​@@GhostEmblem not so inconsistencies but not being able to fit it in the puzzle, for example existences of Seelies and rulership of Moon sisters doesn't add up to any timeline if we go off of what we only know currently. to elaborate, from what we know Seelies were envoys of Celestia but also from what we know only species that PO and 4 shades created are humans(unless they reveal later on that PO created them too) if that's the case then Seelies might have existed before PO even came AND if that's the case then where the fuck did they live? before PO, Dragons were the ones who ruled the land. there were some other species here and there but not a dominant species like Seelies, they just don't add up and are stuck in a weird limbo. correct me if i am wrong tho

[@starlight14673]

​@@motemo8413arent seelies also genshin's angels?? The lower ones the higher ones being the 4 shades and then primo god ... and

[@Lissentewmi]

"I am, therefore I think" got a hearty chuckle out of me

[@mikkomuukka1755]

Dainslief is the Skull Knight? "Fate is not a circle it’s a spiral" kinda sounds something that would fit Genshin Lore too. Btw. I have theory that the Traveler gets his "Ancestral Name" get's killed and brought back life, literally doing what they tried to do in Khaenriah to make Descenders, thus awakening the Traveler into true Descender status. "You have traversed the fire of two worlds within the hearth, and here you are reborn."

[@paulamblard3836]

about shadows : it remind the quote of ?the tzarina? in the Arlecchino trailer : "A spark cannot shatter all shadows, until it sets all ablaze… Or else to the other end of light, lies still bleak shades."

[@randomcitizen1669]

Lunar continent?!! :O This must be the next chapter after Teyvat

[@jennycatmystique7139]

Really appreciate the note regarding pale princess (: . Hopefully people weren’t too rude about it, but I’ve had to leave previous videos suddenly because im avoiding the pale princess info beyond what is in the game. I’ll definitely enjoy coming back to these theories once pale princess is finally let out of the lore basement… or will just have permanent clown makeup stuck to my face if it never gets added.

[@whystaroth]

You WILL NOT gonna believe my timing here. I was watching this video while getting some chests from Star Rail, then I was doing the pathfinder puzzles from the Skysplitter area where you challenge 3 different "CHESS FANS" NPCs, each will give you 5 puzzles and, of course, 5 chests. Then when I finished I got an achievement: THE HAND OF GOD. Can you imagine my reaction to it honestly?

[@DragonMJE]

Interesting, I will check it out.

[@whystaroth]

@@DragonMJE Unfortunately it doesn't have any impressive description to it, I was just caught by surprise when you talked about the God's hand, and how they were five and not even 2 minutes after I got the achievement and being 5 treasure chests from each somehow seemed so specific. Don't have to mention the instant regret for not really paying enough attention to the dialogues, or the characters, but I'll certainly dig it up to see if I find anything interesting and try to make sense of it.

[@EchoNoir-]

12:49 this is my Oratrice Mecanique D'analyse Cardinal

[@3u760]

To spice things up out of nowhere, Now that we know Il Capitano's origin, it becomes more interesting to think about how his attire looks like certain green man's specialty. Especially when this man's teapot dialogue said something similar to that Dark Statuette item description,

[@anemoarchonbarbatos390]

Wait.... who???

[@Kanethedragon]

@@anemoarchonbarbatos390 There's not many green men in Genshin, let alone ones that can enter the teapot, so my guess is probably Alhaitham.

[@anemoarchonbarbatos390]

@@Kanethedragon ooohh I see I see

[@Xolents]

again after finishing the archon quest, CINEMA

[@Yama_1291]

I suspected the night realm to be something akin to the Wraith world (unseen world) from Tolkiens mythology. I'm happy to see you came to a similar conclusion!

[@LizzieRider]

Ad astra abyssosque... “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

[@Sarah-iq3sc]

Going here after watchin the mewest Ashikai video, damn I feel everything is connected, my brain is confused, but I feel it, I just feel it this theory and Ashikai are both connected, daayymmn

[@anemoarchonbarbatos390]

I just finished the 5.1 archon quests and boy oh boy.. This guy predicted everything

[@AlexisNess-mn4zw]

Btw Childes character story also refers to the abyss as pitch black void

[@starlight14673]

Its still weird bcz for childe it was dark pitch void for natlan it feels like an intelligent entity what if vedrfolnir is the one who is controlling the abyss by basically making hinself and abyss the one

[@AlexisNess-mn4zw]

@@starlight14673 Well even in Childes story its stated abyss can sense h is ambition. So even there its described as something highly perceptive

[@marcosmartin721]

First time watching your videos after they just uploaded, it's kinda nice.

[@LadyCorax]

I really like where you're going with this one. I've been turning the seelies vs dragons pairing around in my head for ages now

[@knightofwisdom8851]

28:30 yes,you nailed Capitano's plan

[@ImGaroutherohunter]

Traveller will help fatui in the end to fight abyss and celestia

[@starlight14673]

True at this point fatui aint the bad guys they were always the gray ones they will help you and you help them

[@starlight14673]

Also we wont fight celestia they will add some anime type thingy making abyss the more evil and celestia the ok guys we might fught the sussytainer and primo god or the one who is impersonating the primogod

[@lakitaharry9715]

Can't believe two of my favorite theorists made such similar videos just before the new patch. This would have been such a cracked collaboration.

[@rajaryan-fe1oy]

Ballsy move to release a theory video right before the AQ

[@lathamtk]

Godlike video good Sir. Admittedly some of the previous ones describing the Heavenly Halberd / Fischl and the Angel's Egg went a little bit over my head, but this one was pretty crystal clear due to both length and clarity of the comparisons.

[@dear_totheheart]

Been missing you and your stunning analysis, what a joy and intriguing concepts to consider and perhaps see play out! Thanks so much for your fantastic presentations, research, and connecting these ties in a more congruent and understandable way, I've come to enjoy playing Genshin far more with your informed conjectures and rationale, appreciate it and your amazing content!

[@Chibichibiichigo1214]

I can't wait to see what you'll cook up with the information we got from the new archon quests.

[@koma_place]

"Well, according to the council of I made it the fjck up"🤣🤣🤣

[@iAmPrice]

28:27 this is exactly what happened 🔥🔥

[@koma_place]

I swear these theories are more educational than my uni courses were and I love it😭💜 Thank you for your hard work and for the great content! (Also, if u need help with research when Snezhnaya comes out, feel free to reach out, best regards, local slavic nerd)

[@littlewolf7011]

ahaha the music used in from Assassins creed Odyssey!! no wonder it was soo familair as explore ancient greece in that game!

[@kirameli65]

ac odyssey music never misses

[@koltenweber805]

Assassin's creed odyssey bgm going hard in the background

[@johnb1145]

I hope Irmin is voiced by Dave Fennoy, the same deep voice who voiced the one-eyed Cyrus in Cyno's quest 😮...oh, and he also voices the Wraith King from dota.

[@TJ-zl2ns]

thank you for the incredible food that you've cooked, I was really hungry

[@SirZelean]

I think it makes a lot of sense that the dragons who betrayed Nibelung for Phanes' plan became the gods we know today. As we all know, Teyvat's gods carry names of demons. Demons are fallen angels, and angels are dragons. Demons follow Lucifer, who was created by God, like Nibelung would have created Phanes. And Lucifer plotted against God, like how in this theory Phanes betrayed Nibelung.

[@michaellplays5298]

5:04 actually in greek mythology the gods were imperfect. In the mythology, many of them were commonly portrayed as flawed and sometimes just awful, and they usually didn't want to own up to their mistakes.

[@leighslore]

ayyyeeee the king has posted gang, time to eat

[@starslightsee]

Some of this reminds me of arlecchino's weapon description.. .. before dark sun illuminated the underground, false sky the prigin of worlds fate & the shadow of the sun.. -but thats about crimson moon

[@inigocraft2446]

21:14 aren’t the two travelers morningstars as well? Since the twins are pretty obviously a reference to Lucifer MORNINGSTAR and paimon being well paimon a fully loyal follower of Lucifer

[@redsk3678]

Omg, the goat did it again

[@shadeblackwolf1508]

And yet... the mortal world is held together bu Irmin's tree....

[@YuaHaruna]

this is so strange hearing the diety names of my culture haha. I love it tho

[@ashy969]

25:30 - my thoughts exactly! They gave us Phanes 😂😂😂

[@EthHawke94]

I wonder; if the Abyss has a Dragon Sovereign King and the Abyss God is a Usurper that needs to be Destroyed to restore the Abyss to its former, less evil state?

[@ibelieveinwoozisupremacy8681]

I just talk about this with my friend and well well

[@bibsgamer3972]

Man at this point you are just writing the script for the game yourself! You just predicted like 80% right

[@fazadhikarizqkoswara9429]

This theory is certainly correct after the 5.1 update in many ways on the best implementation possible😂

[@DragonMJE]

Glad to hear that, I am about to finish Act IV, after which I will work on the next video.

[@twowickie]

ah, i get it. so it's chickens all the way down.

[@starknight1244]

I wonder why we haven't yet heard anything about the queen of khaenri'ahn yet, hmm. We heard of the king and royal family but no Queen.

[@MoonQiFumbo]

22:51 And Here's the Catch

[@annikaj2770]

Sooooo interesting thanks

[@creativemind2942]

Genshin the philo wage, or philo the genshin way -a 1st year philosophy major

[@abouddeuce6832]

Spoilers... Ronova is confirmed to be shade of death and she gave xbalanque dome of her power put in the gnosis but at the cost of death + capitano was trying to become the pyro archon and save natlan by using the gnosis thus sacrificing himself in the process and he's also sent by ronova , he's from khaneriah nd he's rotting nd cursed with immortality

[@Nosh-38]

If I may ask.. where did u get this from?

[@abouddeuce6832]

@@Nosh-38 the official lines from tomorrow's archon quest, it's a site called project amber

[@F1ll1nTh3Blanks]

​@@Nosh-38 5.1 logs.

[@abouddeuce6832]

@@Nosh-38 5.1 logs a site called project amber

[@Sacration]

Yup this is exact. I can confirm

[@barti560]

Stellaron, stellaron, stellaron~...

[@Simson616]

Didn't platonism also have a concept of drawing a will from chaos into existence? much like rhinedottir drew wills from the abbyss into existence as dragons or spicy doggos?

[@the_Mycsic]

5:39 Plato wasn't a dualist, he was a sentinel

[@lnsflare1]

By current classification standards, all birds, including chickens, are classified as dinosaurs, therefore "Chickens evolved from dinosaurs" is correct, since they are still dinosaurs, just a different species of them from their ancestors.

[@DragonMJE]

When I pretend to not understand something it is usually because I don't feel like wasting time on recording & editing the explanation in the video. It doesn't actually mean I don't understand what that thing is. Saying "chickens evolved from dinosaurs" is imprecise because evolutionarily, they descended from a specific lineage of theropod dinosaurs, which is a subset of dinosaurs that includes both birds and their non-avian relatives. In taxonomy, birds are a distinct class within the larger dinosaur lineage, and using "dinosaur" in a contemporary context typically refers to non-avian, extinct dinosaurs. So, while chickens share ancestry with dinosaurs, they are classified separately as a unique group that evolved from them. So no, Chickens didn't actually evolve from Dinosaurs, they are a result of adaptive radiation from an ancestral, now extinct, species (maniraptorans) that evolved from Dinosaurs.

[@Frou-hsr]

Just as there is still a bit of Night Kingdom left, is there also a bit of Light Kingdom somewhere?

[@lathamtk]

Probably? Phanes probably only used up a portion of the Light Realm to carve out of the Human Realm, but the question is - Can the remaining portion of the Light Realm exist by itself, with having a portion of itself removed? Maybe it is somewhere still, tattered but overall intact, or maybe it decayed and fell apart once a piece of it was torn off... we have to wait and see.

[@kiriancat]

only problem i see with this theory: Phanes is supposed to be the first descender. if he is native to teyvat, he's not a descender.

[@lakitaharry9715]

Actually, before sun and moon states the primordial one "may have been Phanes", meaning they weren't sure.

[@AndieStardustDraws]

28:13 AAAAAAAAAAAAA DUUUUDE

[@NahualUlloa]

Someone said.... DUALITY??

[@FaigelAsra]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@asifurrahamansajon8777]

Why suffering means its imperfect?

[@azuarc]

Plato was not a duelist. Got it. That's Clorinde.

[@jlaz104]

Early to my be mind blown!!!!

[@Myraclesdream]

[@lapis.d3i]

Why turn off cc option :(

[@belajarbahasa988]

❤

[@Sacration]

The night Kingdom exist because Xuihcoatl burnt Natlan Ley Lines. The remaining seelie created the Night Realm via the single left leaf of Irminsul of Natlan (such as Frostbearer/ Windrise/ Sakura etc...) Here me out : Sumeru introduced in the Aranyaka questlines the Entity known as Marana. We fight multiples creatures Titled as "Marana's Avatars" ... I suspect Marana to be the Sumerian name for the entity who reigns supreme in the Abyss. Marana is sanskrit for Death. (Death by snake bite poison specifically 👀)... snake of the battle pass perhaps ? After all its fiting for a snake to have seduced the 5 sinners no ? Just like in the bible

[@starlight14673]

I think so but i think this night kingdom is different its the natlan ley line nothing else but yeah a snake white snake.. seducing the 5 sinner makes a lot of sense i think it is the ruler...OR it is the embodiment of sin and greed is still doesnt make sense that when some ppl are affected they slowly die and some ppl who gets affected cant stop them going into abyss just wth is this.. sinner cant resist the call if abyss WHY? WHY? IS IT BCZ IT IS A SENTIENT BEING? OR IS IT THE CORRUPTION OR HECK MAYBE EVEN THE HONKAI OF HONKAI IMPACT JUST DIFFERENT SINCE BOTH EFFECTS ARE SAME

[@flybybullets]

Just came from the latest patch. How?

[@DragonMJE]

How?

[@sebay4654]

​@@DragonMJEhow

[@flybybullets]

@@DragonMJE How were you so accurate in your predictions?

[@meddlecat]

I suppose :3

[@Xolents]

Cinema

[@jbjb1069]

0-1-0 ?

[@hypnozpie4071]

i think teyvat is actually the abyss, and celestia just conquered it and used the power of vishaps to make it livable in. celestia is just trying to protect everyone from the abyss but it causes an inbalance in the world because theyre supposed to coexist.

[@Alex04blue868]

26:34

[@readyraito9154]

yap yapp yapppp yappppppppp

[@ame-vz2ni]

hiiiiiii

[@The_original_one]

Wtf u essentially gave us spoiler from 5.1

[@spandams]

Fake sky reveal

[@kotarouinugami1745]

Either I'm too sleepy, or you're jumping all over the place. Either way, it feels too mythological and not quite on the level of fantasy with elements of sci-fi that is Genshin Impact. A bunch of random thoughts brought about by your video: * The Abyss probably isn't "rational", but "emotional". * It is likely that Phanes is from outside of Teyvat. Because the world he built is too well-suited to world travelers like Aether and Lumine. It could be that much of these things are built by Second Who Came and lesser people who accompanied them, but humans were already there, and they were just like humans elsewhere. * Of course the Night Kingdom is located where the ley lines are weak. When a dragon corrupted by the darkness of the Abyss burned the past Irminsul tree, it damaged the ley lines that were connected to it. And so, emergency repairs were in order. The repair patch? That's the Night Kingdom.

[@TheVermilliaFamily]

You spelt Deity wrong in the captions with every use: You spelled it "Diety"

[@ketrin_uzumaki]

Man why are you mispronouncing Mavuika ?

[@ziebus904]

0:30 "Long before time had a name" ahh intro

[@ziebus904]

DUALITY ? NOWAYINY Zy0x predicted this theory

[@Sacration]

Wait really ?

[@Simson616]

Didn't platonism also have a concept of drawing a will from chaos into existence? much like rhinedottir drew wills from the abbyss into existence as dragons or spicy doggos?